News tagged with syllables
Study: Babies try lip-reading in learning to talk
Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Dyslexia linked to difficulties in perceiving rhythmic patterns in music
Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different writing systems and they ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Finches use their own form of grammar in their tweets
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Kyoto in Japan have discovered that the tweets of Bengalese finches follow a set of grammatical patter ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Language learning: Researchers use video games to crack the speech code
When we speak, our enunciation and pronunciation of words and syllables fluctuates and varies from person to person. Given this, how do infants decode all of the spoken sounds they hear to learn words and meanings?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 18, 2011 |
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Robots learn to create language
(PhysOrg.com) -- Communication is a vital part of any task that has to be done by more than one individual. That is why humans in every corner of the world have created their own complex languages that help ...
May 17, 2011 |
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Music can spark creativity in math and science (w/ video)
From records to boom boxes to CDs and iPods, music has long been part of the lifeblood of being a teenager. Learning math and science in class is not always such a priority.
May 16, 2011 |
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On the tip of your tongue: Researchers reveal our motor system activates when we hear speech
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered our motor system activates automatically when we hear speech. These findings could, in the future, play a central role ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Tactile input affects what we hear: study
Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The Link Between Birdsong And Human Language
Scientists studying how Bengalese finches use sets of syllables to communicate are a step closer to understanding how humans develop and use vocabulary. After studying the neural networks in finch brains, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Probing Question: What do children need to be successful readers?
In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of…"
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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